What kind of humans do we want to be, today and in the future?I write about the crucial intangibles of life — home, attention, reflection — that we often overlook in a technological age, and I search for ways to counterbalance the restlessness, complexity, speed, and . . . read more
"Influential"— The New Yorker“Distracted concentrates the mind on a real problem of modern life.”— The Wall Street Journal
Distracted
Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention
Foreword by Bill McKibben
In the first edition of this groundbreaking book, Maggie Jackson sounded a prescient warning of a looming crisis: the fragmentation of attention that is eroding our abilities to problem-solve, innovate, and care for one another. Now in this updated edition with an incisive new preface, she offers both a renewed wake-up call and a path forward as we reckon with one of the most pressing problems of our time.
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